Grinding Gear has been one of the most outspoken developers in the world regarding crunch, with Wilson saying in the past that he refuses to make his teams crunch. He also discusses hot-button topics like cross-play, microtransactions, and how the studio has gone about avoiding crunch. The main driving decision will be if Grinding Gear has enough to show, and it's too early to say.Īlso in the interview, Wilson speaks about how Path of Exile 2 isn't afraid to compete with Blizzard's Diablo IV, a game that presumably has a bigger budget.

Now Playing: Path Of Exile 2 - Official Gameplay Reveal TrailerĮxileCon may not return for 2020, Wilson says. The 1 min world boss Rogue kill is real btw though I'm certain they farmed a lvl 35 mob for rares because we used very similar builds and they were surviving hits they shouldn't have so easily.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's The game could certainly use more skills and Legendary affixes are problematic. But there's no telling where in development we played.

While the enemy density and the difficulty for types feels right there's also some outright belligerent combos I found that make the game a joke. Much like Necro's 8 way synergy with Corpse Explosion.

Then you can solo the world boss in 1 minute. I even geared my characters pretty hard through both betas.Īll but my Druid had full or -1 from full legendary Affix synergy.Įveryone complaining about Barb but it's very much tied to Legendary Affixes. Too many of those small enemies can cause problems and the rares are properly dangerous. Enemy Density is this game's worst problem. I've mentioned this countless times on the forums here. This was by far the best thing I can point in D4 comparated to poe, and maybe (who knows what we are getting in poe2) we can fix that some day. In PoE, we have to run the same 10 acts exactly in the same way and doing exactly the same missions. If you played D4 you know what I am talking about: missions, dungeons, world boss, quest sides, just walk around and explore the world and kill shit, and so on. I could do whatever I want, instead of running the same history and quests over and over again in a line. I know we are far from it (maybe not with poe2? who knows) but the best thing I had while playing D4 was this. To me, poe could get ride of wisdows and also bind a key to TP. You see those GIGANT MONSTER called GRY7D in heist that do actually 0 damage but little spiders in delve hits you 5k damage each.ģ) One button to TP. 99% of map bosses are shit and you can actually do it with your monitor turned off but meanwhile random magic mobs one shots you with 6-7k hit. PoE is somehow exactly the opposed of it. You really need to worry about the BOSS in the end of mission/dungeon(map). Special rare/elite mobs hits a lot, but does NOT ONE SHOT YOU. On Diablo 4, while 'Mapping', running dungeons and doing missions enemies are easy/medium difficult. So there is no down side here.Ģ) Small enemies hits like a ant, Big Enemies hits like a TRUCK so it changes nothing if you give then refound points (or you think Zizaran doesnt know how to build his tree?)īut: new players REALLY need that. Think with me: good and experienced players are not wasting points. I wish we had some kind of refound system A LOT better than what we have now. I remember starting poe 9 years ago and my passive tree was a disaster and I had to delete my character at lvl 50 or 60 and start all over again.Īt that time, it felt really painful and boring. Something that is nearly impossible in path of exile.

I mean, you can literally respect your entire passive many times in D4 before reach lvl 15-20-25. Specially for new players, the refound system in poe is terrible comparated to what i saw in D4. I am saying here that there is somethings that D4 is doing better right now and can actually help poe to be even a better game than what it already is. I play poe for 9 years, don't get me wrong. ****Please look: I am not saying PoE is a bad game.

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